![]() In 1856, he started working as a draftsman for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. In 1854, at the age of 14, he was enrolled for about a year of study with Alfred Fredericks and Theodore Kaufmann, and then at the school of the National Academy of Design. He did poorly at his lessons, but his passion for drawing was apparent from an early age. Nast attended school in New York City from the age of six to 14. He sent his wife and children to New York City, and at the end of his enlistment in 1850, he joined them there. His father held political convictions that put him at odds with the Bavarian government, so in 1846, Joseph Nast left Landau, enlisting first on a French man-of-war and subsequently on an American ship. He had an older sister Andie two other siblings had died before he was born. Nast was the last child of Appolonia ( née Abriss) and Joseph Thomas Nast. ![]() Nast was born in military barracks in Landau, Germany (now in Rhineland-Palatinate), as his father was a trombonist in the Bavarian 9th regiment band. ![]()
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